Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) This June, we received a letter from a reader asking why it seemed like there are fewer summer blackouts, especially in the western US, than there used to be. This resonated with me. When I was a kid growing…

Enlarge / A rendering by SolarReserve of what the Aurora site will look like after it’s completed. (credit: SolarReserve) On Monday the South Australian government awarded a key contract to a company called SolarReserve to build a 150MW…

Enlarge (credit: NIssan) A year-long trial in Denmark is showing that utilities can use parked electric vehicles (EVs) as spare batteries, and those EVs can earn quite a bit of money for their owners from the utilities. In an interview…

Enlarge / Car Exhaust With Two Tailpipes (credit: Getty Images) Yesterday Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt announced that the agency would start a public comment period in efforts to overhaul Obama-era fuel…

Enlarge (credit: Yuriko Nakao/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced in April that the company is working on pushing a long-haul electric semi truck to market, which is set to be formally revealed in September. Now,…

Enlarge / The “driverless car” in question looked similar to this one—it was a 2017 Ford Transit Connect. (credit: Ford) The video opens with a guy rapping on the window of a van. "Brother, who are you?" the person holding the camera says.…